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46-660: In 2015, Nathalie Manzano-Smith and Ted Caplow won the Knight Cities Challenge grant competition from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with a proposal to build a Miami Science Barge and moor it in Museum Park in downtown Miami, FL . The Miami Science Barge opened on Earth Day, April 22, 2016. The following April, the Barge was gifted to Frost Science Museum . Compared with the original Science Barge,

92-571: A Ph.D. in engineering from Columbia University and has published a series of peer-reviewed articles on water contaminant dynamics in the Hudson River Estuary, in addition to articles on Building-integrated agriculture . Theodore Caplow (birth name: Theodore Caplow, Jr.) was born in New York City in 1969 to Anne Christine Allen and Theodore Caplow. His father was a well-known American sociologist and author of over 20 books in

138-467: A career as a Wall Street stockbroker, he moved into public service by volunteering for his community board and working for then-city comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman. In 2004, Duane completed Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow. His brother, John F. Duane, served in

184-491: A novel, openly accessible online application. Dr. Anita Zaidi was announced the winner of the 2013 Children’s Prize on December 10, 2013 for her program in Rehri Goth , Pakistan. The Children’s Prize launched its eighth iteration in 2022 and has funded children's health initiatives in 10 countries around the world. As part of his company Fish Navy Films, Ted Caplow has written, produced, edited, narrated and appeared in

230-634: A science prize competition and residency program which debuted in 2017 at the Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami FL. The winning technologies focused on coral reef restoration and airborne carcinogen detection, respectively. The winning scientific teams worked in public-facing labs and interacted with museum guests, discussing why their work matters, what kind of progress they’ve made, and what hurdles lie ahead. The laser project later transitioned to Ransom Everglades School . Theodore Caplow

276-400: A series of documentary films on sustainable seafood. Films produced by Fish Navy Films include Fish Meat (2012), Raising Shrimp (2013) , and What We Fish For (2015). Caplow’s primary scientific collaborator in all three films has been fish ecologist Andy J. Danylchuk. Thomas Duane Thomas K. Duane (born January 30, 1955) is an American politician from New York, who served in

322-674: Is a non-profit organization focused on environmental justice in distressed communities in the lower Hudson Valley. In November 2008, the Science Barge docked in Yonkers, at the mouth of the Saw Mill River . The site has helped attract visitors to the downtown Yonkers area especially due to its accessibility by mass transit. The placement by the Saw Mill River, a major Hudson River tributary , has called attention to

368-462: Is best known for conceiving and developing the Science Barge urban farm in 2006. The Science Barge functions as both an experimental platform for closed-loop high-efficiency food production using renewable energy and an educational tool to improve opportunities for hands-on “experiential” STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) learning for inner city students. In 2009, the Science Barge

414-416: Is harvested from the greenhouse roof and stored in tanks with a 1200-gallon aggregate capacity before being used to irrigate hydroponic crops in a broad and constantly evolving variety of different growing systems and media. The barge has also hosted a number of aquaponic and marine science experiments, including cultivation of tilapia, catfish, crayfish, clams, and oysters, among others. The energy systems on

460-868: The Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises ; and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum . Over the next two years, the barge also made several visits to pier I in Riverside Park South as well as the Chelsea Piers complex in lower Manhattan. After touring for two years, New York Sun Works sought a permanent home for the Barge and decided to sell the Science Barge to Groundwork Hudson Valley in Yonkers, NY in October 2008 for $ 2.00. Groundwork Hudson Valley

506-589: The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs , and has served on its board of directors. Duane has received a number of honors, from organizations including Callen-Lorde Community Health Center , Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (where he was the World AIDS Day speaker in December 2015), and The Alpha Workshops, which will be honoring him on May 15, 2017. In 2012 he received a Legends of

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552-731: The New York State Assembly in 1983–84 representing the 26th Assembly District in Queens. Duane's partner of 25 years is Louis Webre. Duane was first elected to the New York City Council in 1991 for the 3rd district . Duane and Antonio Pagán , first elected in the same year, were the first two openly gay city council members in New York. For part of that time, Christine Quinn worked as his chief of staff. When he resigned his council seat on being sworn into

598-565: The New York State Senate from 1999 to 2012, and in the New York City Council from 1992 to 1998. Duane was the first openly gay member of the New York State Senate, and the only such member during his tenure there. He was also the body's only openly HIV-positive member. He represented the 29th Senate district , which stretched along Manhattan 's West Side from 85th Street to Canal Street , and includes

644-819: The Sun Works Center at PS 333 , the first full-scale rooftop greenhouse completed in 2010 as part of a NY Sun Works campaign to build 100 school greenhouses in NYC between 2010 and 2020. The campaign succeeded after the greenhouse educational system was expanded to include conversion of existing classrooms into hydroponic laboratories. As of 2022, NY Sun Works has built and operated over 200 greenhouse labs, mostly in New York City public schools, trained 700 teachers, and created over 800 curriculum lessons for use in these greenhouse labs. From 2008 to 2011, through design consultancy BrightFarm Systems, Caplow contributed to

690-577: The Miami Science Barge places more emphasis on marine science, conservation, and sustainable aquaculture, while also updating many of the urban agricultural systems featured on the original. The Science Barge was conceived and designed by Ted Caplow and built by New York Sun Works , a non-profit organization that developed the project in order to educate students and teachers about the science of sustainability through hydroponic farming. The exhibits and ecological experiments that comprise

736-615: The New York State legislature included the passage of the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) (2002) and Timothy's Law , which requires mental health parity for patients by insurance companies (2006) which were subsequently signed into law by Governor George Pataki . Duane was the prime Senate sponsor of the state's Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which became law in 2019 after he had left office. Duane

782-679: The New York Times, ABC World News, Voice of America, Science, and the Economist, among others. A double-page photo of the Science Barge appeared in National Geographic in March 2009 as part of an issue dedicated to energy efficiency. Interest in the Science Barge has continued as awareness and public interest in sustainable food production methods and Building-integrated agriculture has grown. During an August 2014 visit to

828-547: The Science Barge float on a steel deck barge, approximately 115 feet long, constructed in the 1940s and used for cargo and utility work in New York Harbor until leased by New York Sun Works from Hughes Marine in 2006. The Science Barge urban farm systems were built on the barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn in the summer of 2006, and deployed briefly to pier 92 before opening to the public at pier 84 on May 4, 2007, adjacent to

874-420: The Science Barge moved to Yonkers, NY where it continues to host educational tours for school children during the week and is open for public visitation on the weekends. Over the years, the Science Barge has received a significant amount of national and international press including articles from National Geographic and the New York Times. In March 2015, a team led by Nathalie Manzano and including Caplow won

920-479: The Science Barge on May 4, 2007 was attended by dignitary speakers including New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York State Senator Thomas Duane , noted ecological design pioneer John Todd , who in his public remarks called the Science Barge "a crucible for visualizing the city of the future" and United Nations senior adviser Jeffrey Sachs who said that “The Science Barge is not only an invitation to ideas and learning, but to change.” In March 2009,

966-524: The Science Barge was named "Best Class Trip" by New York magazine in its annual "Best Of..." issue. In July 2009, GOOD created a short video of the purpose and methods of the Barge. In the same month, former CBS News Anchor Dan Rather hosted an episode of "Dan Rather Reports" on the Barge. A hydroponic greenhouse, inspired by the Science Barge, opened in 2010 on the roof of the Manhattan School for Children. The Science Barge has been covered by

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1012-466: The Science Barge, Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker said “"I think really that the county government is making such a mandate of doing this. I'm hoping that residents will also see that this is the way that they can do their part too." Theodore Caplow Theodore "Ted" Caplow (born 1969) is an American social entrepreneur, environmental engineer, and inventor. He is the founder of greenhouse science lab provider New York Sun Works and

1058-486: The Senate, she successfully ran to succeed him. In 1994, Duane ran for the U.S. House of Representatives against incumbent Jerrold Nadler , losing the primary election by a margin of two to one. Duane has also served as a member of his local Community Board, and four terms as Male Democratic District Leader in the 64th New York State Legislature . First elected to the New York State Senate in 1998, Duane took office

1104-634: The State Senate, he has continued his advocacy work on behalf of the LGBTQ community, disadvantaged children, people with HIV/AIDS , and others. He established Tom Duane Strategies, Inc., dedicated to working with organizations that improve the quality of life for New Yorkers. He has been an outspoken critic of Republican Party agendas, including the first Trump Administration , and an ongoing supporter of LGBTQ rights. He has done philanthropic work with New York City's Anti-Violence Project, which coordinates

1150-705: The VIG on the Science Barge (2008), at PS 333 in Manhattan (2010), and at PS 89 in Brooklyn (2011), and Caplow built an improved VIG at the Miami Museum of Science (2012) and on the Miami Science Barge (2016) but the design has yet to see commercial use. Caplow founded New York Sun Works in 2004 and chairs the not-for-profit's board of directors. Caplow was closely involved in the development of

1196-560: The Village award from VillageCare, a nonprofit serving people with chronic, continuing, and rehabilitative care needs, which cited his championing of "civil rights, including gay rights in particular, HIV treatment and outreach needs, health care initiatives that reach out to those who are underserved or not served at all, tenant rights and much more." In 2016 he received an Impact Award from Gay City News . In January 2022, Tom Duane endorsed New York State Assembly candidate Tony Simone for

1242-487: The barge, in their original configuration, included 2.5 KW of solar capacity mounted on passive trackers, 2 kW of micro wind turbines , a 4 kW biodiesel backup generator, a large lead-acid battery bank providing 1000 amp-hours at 48 volts, and associated support hardware. The barge also deployed a semi-custom reverse osmosis system to desalinate water from the Hudson River for backup use. The public launch of

1288-404: The barge. The structure is aluminum and secured to the barge deck via bolts and custom-made welded steel brackets. The walls of the greenhouse are glass and the roof is a rigid, doubled walled polycarbonate plastic. Ventilation is achieved via four mechanical fans, a padwall evaporative cooling system, and a large, automatically controlled atrium roof vent to maximize passive ventilation . Rainwater

1334-447: The co-founder of AgTech supply-chain disruptor BrightFarms . Caplow's pioneering work in urban agriculture and vertical farming began with the Science Barge in Yonkers, New York (NY). Caplow has also patented a Vertically Integrated Greenhouse. Caplow subsequently co-founded Caplow|Manzano in 2017 with Nathalie Manzano to pursue innovations in resilient housing design and sustainable building technology. As an academic, Caplow holds

1380-529: The current restoration work and continued the revitalization of downtown Yonkers . Groundwork Hudson Valley uses the Science Barge to provide a research, training, and development platform for its Yonkers-based food programs including the Get Fresh Yonkers Food Co-op, Farmers Market, and Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). The greenhouse on the barge is approximately 1200 ft2, purchased new from Nexus, Inc and constructed in place on

1426-770: The design of a 10,000 sq ft. greenhouse built on top of the Forest Houses apartment complex in South Bronx, NY, an in-store hydroponic greenhouse constructed at Whole Foods Market in Millburn, NJ, and a rooftop greenhouse at P.S. 89 in Brooklyn, NY. Many other design studies in Building-integrated Agriculture (a term Caplow coined in 2007) were executed for clients around the world. Prominent architectural and engineering firms who collaborated on design studies with BrightFarms while Caplow led

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1472-503: The domestic production of seafood. The Miami Science Barge was destroyed by Hurricane Irma in 2017. Caplow invented the Vertically Integrated Greenhouse (VIG) with Zakery Ward Adams. The invention is listed as Patent US20090307973 and was published in December 2009. The VIG consists of vertically stacked plant trays that can be moved to maximize plant light capture and shade as necessary. In addition to

1518-503: The failed 2009 Senate vote on the bill, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn thanked Duane and the State Senate leadership for bringing the bill to a vote and saying "I applaud them for their dogged leadership on this issue." Same-sex marriage was legalized in New York in 2011, and the New York Daily News described Duane as a "leader" in that legislative effort. Duane's signature legislative accomplishments in

1564-469: The firm include Kiss + Cathcart, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Grimshaw, Foster & Co, and Arup, among others. In the wake of the economic downturn of 2007-2009, Caplow partnered with Paul Lightfoot (in 2011) to reformulate BrightFarms Systems as a full service commercial farming company named BrightFarms . As of 2022, the company operates six large greenhouse farms across the country supplying salad greens to hundreds of grocery stores nationwide. Caplow

1610-491: The following January and won re-election every two years thereafter until leaving office in 2012. Only the second openly LGBT member of the New York Legislature , he later became one of six, alongside Assemblymembers Micah Kellner , Daniel O'Donnell , Matthew Titone , Harry Bronson and Deborah Glick . Duane was the lead sponsor of same-sex union legislation in the New York State Senate . Following

1656-790: The following neighborhoods: Upper West Side , Hell's Kitchen , Chelsea , Greenwich Village , and part of the East Side, including the East Village , Stuyvesant Town , Peter Cooper Village and Waterside Plaza . Duane holds a degree in American and Urban Studies from Lehigh University . Born at the old French Hospital on West 30th Street in Manhattan , he was raised in Flushing, Queens , where he attended St. Andrew Avellino School and Holy Cross High School (Flushing) . After beginning

1702-571: The inaugural Knight Cities Challenge from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with a proposal to build a Miami Science Barge in downtown Miami, FL . It launched in April 2016. Similar to the Science Barge in NY, it was off grid and focused on sustainability. The Miami Science Barge though, also concentrated on marine ecology and conservation in Biscayne Bay, and emphasized clean aquaculture for

1748-658: The perpetrators were charged only with a misdemeanor. He also took the lead on "Manny's Law", which requires hospitals to disclose to indigent patients the availability of state-sponsored funds for health care costs, and worked to enact a rental cap of 30 percent of income for people who are living with AIDS and eligible for government financial assistance. He was also a leader in bipartisan moves to require health insurers to cover mental health treatment, to improve health care for prisoners, and to make it harder for people to avoid paying child and spousal support. Duane has also fought overdevelopment in historic districts. In 2003, he

1794-727: The social sciences. Caplow grew up in central Virginia and attended Groton School in Massachusetts. He entered Harvard University intending to major in physics but graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1992. Following college, Caplow, together with his father and other family members, sailed a 47 foot boat from NYC to Cyprus, stimulating his interest in engineering. He received an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 from Princeton University , where his interest in renewable energy

1840-432: The trays and suspension system, the VIG system includes a closed-loop water distribution system which consists of a reservoir, a pump, and a water supply tube for growing plants hydroponically. According to the patent abstract, “the design is particularly well-suited for installation in a double-skin façade of a building, or in an interior atrium, lobby, or similar structure.” Caplow and Adams built and installed prototypes of

1886-485: Was also instrumental in the ultimate passage of the Hate Crimes Protection Act of 2000, which stipulates longer penalties for those convicted of alleged hate crimes and mandates that New York State keep an active database of these crimes. Duane's advocacy of this cause was personal as well as principled; in 1983, he was hospitalized after being assaulted by two men shouting anti-gay epithets, yet

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1932-502: Was fostered by Robert H. Socolow and Daniel Kammen and where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship . Caplow’s thesis at Princeton was an extended design modeling and optimization project for a solar thermal “power tower” that explored the feasibility of employing gas turbines in these designs. Caplow completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2004 at Columbia University , where he

1978-591: Was honored with a Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation . At one time he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, and he later served as that committee's Ranking Minority Member. In June 2012, Duane announced that he would be leaving the Senate, citing weariness with commuting between New York City and Albany and in general being ready for "another chapter in my life." Since retiring from

2024-588: Was influenced by Peter Schlosser, Vijay Modi, Klaus Lackner , and Upmanu Lall , among others. Caplow’s dissertation concerned the hydrodynamics of contaminant transport in the Hudson River Estuary and his scholarly work in this field has appeared in Environmental Science & Technology , the Journal of Environmental Engineering and Acta Horticulturae . Caplow conceived and, together with Nathalie Manzano, developed Inventors-in-Residence ,

2070-626: Was initially President of the Board but sold his remaining stake in Brightfarms in 2021 when the company was acquired by Cox Enterprises. Caplow created the Children's Prize in 2013. Structured as a private foundation, the Children’s Prize aims to save the lives of children under age 5 anywhere in the world. In the initial year, over 550 applications from 70 countries were received using

2116-485: Was named "Best Class Trip" by New York Magazine. Caplow conceived of the project, raised and contributed funding, determined which systems to include on the barge, and drew the initial plans. Execution of the design and various details of the greenhouse, water recovery, and solar/wind power systems were completed by the entire team at NY Sun Works . After being stationed in Hudson River Park from 2006 to 2008,

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